The stage 3 tax cuts were originally estimated to cost at least $19 billion a year. But they are getting cheaper.

India’s COVID-19 deaths rose by more than 4000 for a second consecutive day on Sunday as calls for a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the virus mounted.

Companies that force workers to create complicated passwords could actually be weakening their data security, Queensland researchers have found.

The offender, who committed 23 “disgusting” sexual offences against girls as young as six over 20 years, was told his sentence was neither unreasonable nor unjust.

Conservationists and residents say the Toondah Harbour development above Cleveland wetlands should be called in as it now varies markedly from the initial plan.

Follow along for all the major moments as round eight of the AFL season comes to a conclusion.

At 27 points down deep into the third quarter, the Western Bulldogs would have been forgiven for thinking that this was just another one of those days against a Carlton side that has had the Dogs’ measure in recent times.

A unique collaboration between a Miles Franklin award-winning author and an academic is helping more people understand how aged care residents experience ‘the worst bloody feeling in the world’.

Melbourne City dominated and looked set to beat Brisbane easily, until the Roar fought back to level. It took a Scott Galloway stunner to seal all three points.

St George Illawarra woke up from a first-half slumber to pile further pain on Canterbury as Trent Barrett made the boldest call of his NRL coaching career.

All you need to know to back a winner on a seven-race card at Quirindi on Monday.

Despite his superb winning rate as Geelong coach, Chris Scott gets undersold by Geelong people, and opposition fans alike. He deserves more recognition.

A company controlled by Sheikh Mubarak al-Sabah has lodged fresh plans for a 10-storey apartment development in a prime position next to the Port Melbourne beach.

His extensive knowledge and expertise made him one of the most respected dealers in Australia. After so many years in the game it’s no surprise his legacy includes the repatriation of over 1000 important paintings.

The media needs to report on the pandemic without inciting blame and encouraging condemnation.

Greensill Capital founder Lex Greensill will be publicly grilled by British politicians this week.

Once upon a time, a 7-year-old refugee living in a homeless shelter sat down at a chess board in school and learned how to play. The boy wasn’t any good at first, but he enjoyed chess as an escape from the chaos of his life.

In a manic finale, James O’Connor scored a try to win Super Rugby AU for Queensland over the Brumbies. But new vision casts doubt on the previous play.

The Goodwood and Doomben 10,000 offer the chance for contenders to push their claims for The Everest, but the x-factor might be at Rosehill on Saturday.

Tom Trbojevic produced four try assists and scored two of his own to see off the Warriors in his 100th NRL game on Sunday.  

A large group of water researchers has been accused of acting like a consulting consortium, a stance they reject.

Chris Masters was the keynote speaker at the opening of the Judith Neilson Institute’s new offices in Chippendale, Sydney. This is an excerpt from his speech.

Senator Andrew Bragg wanted to be a Big W manager when he grew up. Now he writes too many pamphlets.

The co-ordinates given by state media on Sunday, citing the China Manned Space Engineering Office, put the point of impact in the ocean, west of the Maldives archipelago.

Hawthorn trailed by 33 points early in the third term against the Eagles, who were desperate for a win on the road. Instead of roping the visitors in, the margin extended through a third quarter where the Hawks needed to make a charge. 

The family of trucking magnate Lindsay Fox sought legal advice over whether to sue an obscure Queensland website that posted scurrilous rumours implicating the wealthy family in the Premier’s fall.

A letter written to a gymnast by former national women’s coach Peggy Liddick shows how teenage girls were treated in the pursuit of Olympic glory.

Montaigne will represent Australia in the 65th Eurovision song contest with the aptly titled Technicolour. “She’s a dark horse,” says presenter Myf Warhurst.

The Melbourne Vixens finished strongly after the Lightning took an early advantage, but just came up short in a Mother’s Day thriller at John Cain Arena.

The week in photos from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors

The Biden administration is examining ways to ensure that a waiver of COVID-19 vaccine patents to aid poor countries will not hand sensitive US biopharmaceutical technology to China and Russia.

This many cargo shorts, flannelette shirts and Doc Martens boots probably haven’t been assembled in the same spot since a mid-’90s Homebake festival.

Forget about the farmer wanting a wife, this one needs another win.

Schubert’s gentle lyricism bookended Saturday’s concerts with four songs from the soprano and the SSO in the afternoon and the ACO in the evening.

Coach Kevin Walters was “confident” the 20-year-old would remain in Brisbane, but the player then told teammates he was leaving next season.

Artist Robert Owen - the subject of a current survey at Heide - accumulates ideas like a bower bird. But some pieces hint at deeper currents of meaning.

In 1977, a crippling six-day long strike by air traffic controllers left thousands of Australians stranded overseas as the aviation industry in Australia came to a standstill while unions, industry and the government remained deadlocked.

Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick says the next state budget will need a reset after Scott Morrison’s comments on Sunday that the borders may stay closed indefinitely.

No. 1 draft pick Jamarra Ugle-Hagan was an early casualty in Footscray’s VFL game against Carlton at Whitten Oval on Sunday.

Caulfield Grammar School has had a full uniform overhaul focused on student choice and gender-neutrality.

Deputy Premier John Barilaro has described the former PM as an ‘albatross around the neck of the Liberal Party’.

An alleged Islamic State recruiter faced court in Melbourne today after being deported from Turkey where he had been jailed for links to the terrorist group.

Taniela Tupou was the man who almost single-handedly wrestled the Super Rugby grand final back from the Brumbies’ grasp.

With 65 per cent of the nation’s total residential use, Victoria is unique in Australia for its reliance on gas as a fuel source. Now there are clouds on the horizon for what ad-men once called “stored sunshine”.

A coastal village in NSW is split by a fight to save a car park, hailed as a “sacrosanct gathering place for surfers”, but described in a report commissioned by the local council as obscuring “prime views”.

Our school calendars do not reflect our societal acknowledgement of Eid, and this is particularly clear in the scheduling of NAPLAN during Eid-ul-Fitr this year.

Kelp forests along the state’s east coast were once so dense they were marked on shipping maps. But climate change has warmed the ocean, causing a 95 per cent decline.

Multiple blasts at a school in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least 40 people and wounded dozens more, mostly female students, officials said, in an attack President Ashraf Ghani blamed on the insurgent Taliban.

Calls are mounting for increased mental health support for children after bushfires, floods and the coronavirus pandemic.